2017 Golden Boot Awards: Vote Now for New Artist of the Year

Welcome to the fourth annual Golden Boot Awards! The Boot’s fan-voted digital awards, the Golden Boot Awards will, in 2017, feature 10 categories of staff-selected nominees who made waves in the country music world between May 2016 and April 2017. Readers can vote for their preferred winner in each category as often as once per hour through 11:59PM ET on June 4. We’ll announce the winners on the site the following Monday (June 5).

The New Artist of the Year category in the Golden Boot Awards is certainly one of the most exciting to explore, and one of the most difficult in which to select a winner. A number of new names have begun to rise in the past year, and six of them are up for this honor.

Which new country name should be crowned New Artist of the Year in the 2017 Golden Boot Awards? Make your pick in the poll below!

Please note: Cheating will not be tolerated, and any voter found to be cheating will have their votes disqualified. A captcha has been put in place to prevent cheating. If you cannot read the captcha, press the top blue button next to it to refresh to a new one, or press the middle blue button to have the polling system read the captcha to you.